Rason
Rason is a North Korean special city and ice-free port in the Sea of Japan in the North Pacific Ocean on the northeast tip of North Korea. It is in the Kwanbuk region and location of the Rason Special Economic Zone.
- Type: City with 197,000 residents
- Description: North Korean city and ice-free port in the East Sea
- Also known as: “KP-13”, “KP-NAJ”, “Nadzin”, “Najin”, “Najin Sŏnbong-si”, “Radžin-Sonbong”, “Rajin”, “Rajin-Sonbong”, “Rajin-Sŏnbong”, “Rasŏn”, “Rason-si”, “Rasŏn-si”, “Rasŏnas”, “Sonbong”, “Sŏnbong”, “Наджин-Сонбон”, “Раджин-Сонбон”, “रासोन”, “ரேஷன்”, “රසොන්”, “ราซอน”, “나선시”, “나선직할시”, “나선특급시”, “나선특별시”, “나진선봉시”, “라선직할시”, “라선특급시”, “선봉”, “ウンギ”, “ナジン”, “ラジン”, “ラソン”, “罗先”, “罗先特级市”, “罗先直辖市”, “羅先特級市”, “羅先直轄市”, “羅津”, “羅津先鋒”, “羅津市”, “羅津府”, and “雄基”
- Neighbors: Primorsky Krai
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rajin station.
Rajin station
Railway station
Rajin station is a railway station in Rajin-guyŏk, Rasŏn Special City, North Korea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rajin-guyok.
Rason
- Categories: special-level city in North Korea, first-level administrative division, big city, and locality
- Location: Donghae Coast, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42.2497° or 42° 14′ 59″ north
Longitude
130.3113° or 130° 18′ 41″ east
Population
197,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8QJG68X6+VG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Rason” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Raseon”
- Amharic: “ራሰን”
- Arabic: “راسون”
- Armenian: “Ռասոն”
- Asturian: “Rason”
- Azerbaijani: “Rason”
- Basque: “Rason”
- Belarusian: “Расон”
- Bengali: “রাসন”
- Bengali: “রাসোন”
- Bulgarian: “Расън”
- Catalan: “Rason”
- Catalan: “Rasŏn”
- Cebuano: “Rason”
- Chinese: “罗先市”
- Chinese: “羅先市”
- Czech: “Rason”
- Czech: “Rasŏn”
- Danish: “Rason”
- Dutch: “Rasŏn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راسون”
- Esperanto: “Rason”
- Finnish: “Raseon”
- Finnish: “Rasŏn”
- French: “Rasŏn”
- German: “Rason”
- German: “Rasŏn”
- Greek: “Ράσον”
- Gujarati: “રાસન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Rasŏn”
- Hausa: “Rason”
- Hebrew: “ראסון”
- Hindi: “रासों”
- Hungarian: “Raszon”
- Indonesian: “Rason”
- Irish: “Rason”
- Italian: “Rasŏn”
- Japanese: “羅先市”
- Japanese: “羅先特別市”
- Javanese: “Rason”
- Kannada: “ರಾಸನ್”
- Kashubian: “Rasŏn”
- Kazakh: “Расон”
- Khmer: “រ៉ាសុន”
- Kirghiz: “Расон”
- Korean: “Rasŏn”
- Korean: “라선”
- Korean: “라선시”
- Korean: “라선특별시”
- Latvian: “Rasona”
- Lithuanian: “Rasonas”
- Low German: “Rason”
- Malay: “Rason”
- Marathi: “रासन”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Rasŏn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rasŏn Te̍k-pia̍t-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Расон”
- Northern Frisian: “Rasŏn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rason”
- Norwegian: “Rason”
- Oromo: “Rason”
- Panjabi: “ਰਾਸੋਨ”
- Persian: “راسون”
- Polish: “Rasŏn”
- Portuguese: “Rason”
- Pushto: “راسون”
- Romanian: “Rasŏn”
- Russian: “Насон”
- Russian: “Расон”
- Scots: “Rasŏn”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rasŏn”
- Sinhala: “රසෝන්”
- Somali: “Rason”
- Spanish: “Rason”
- Spanish: “Rasŏn”
- Swahili: “Rason”
- Swedish: “Rason”
- Tagalog: “Rason”
- Tajik: “Расон”
- Tamil: “ராசன்”
- Tatar: “Расон”
- Telugu: “రాసన్”
- Thai: “ราซ็อน”
- Turkish: “Rason”
- Ukrainian: “Насон”
- Ukrainian: “Расон”
- Urdu: “راسون”
- Uzbek: “Rason”
- Venetian: “Rasŏn”
- Vietnamese: “La Thiên”
- Vietnamese: “Rason”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rason”
- Welsh: “Rason”
- Yue Chinese: “羅先”
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